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Donald trump just wrote a letter to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger asking him to decertify the results of the election in georgia. trump already made this request in january. >> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. >> joining me now is the georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, author of the forth coming back "integrity counts." fitting title, mr. secretary. thank you so much for being with us...

Fulton county board of commissioners, this is our largest county in the state and saying if they did not appoint somebody he liked for the fulton county board of elections that he would, quote, take them over. there are 20 bills, lawrence, that have passed in 13 states around the country including georgia that are meant to take power away from elections officials and u move it to jerry mandered republican state legislatures and other elected political bodies because they have taken the big lie. ...

So weve moved towards that process. i think that is objective. i think that will help restore confidence. >> then practically speaking, not ideally, whats the one thing we can do right now to start really restoring faith in our elections? any way you slice it, theyre eroding. >> it gets down to personal integrity at the end of the day. you cant control anyone else but yourself. youve got to look at yourself in the mirror so it really gets down to integrity. integrity counts, always has, always w...

Election laws. were getting ready for major mayoral races this year. the reason i wrote the book "integrity counts" is i wanted to make sure i could really lay out point by point exactly what happened in the election. every allegation that was made, we ran that down and we said, no, there werent 5,000, there werent 10,000 dead people that voted, there was less than a handful. there werent 65,000 underaged voters, there were zero. they talked about thousands of felons, there was less than 74. thi...

Repeatedly continued to make these claims for weeks. it comes after trump sent a letter to georgias secretary of state asking him to decertify the states election results ten months after he officially lost. all of this happened as georgias prosecutors moved forward with their probe. joining me to discuss, the man himself, georgias secretary of state brad raffensperger, hes the author of the upcoming book "integrity counts" out this fall. your state already counted the ballots three times, and f...

This year to pass a law, and do not take our word for it. heres georgias republican lieutenant governor. >> this is really the fallout from the ten weeks of misinformation that flew in from former president trump. i went back over the weekend to look at where this really started to gain momentum in the legislature and it was when giuliani showed up in a couple of committee rooms and spent hours spreading misinformation and sewing doubt across hours of testimony. >> now secretary raffensperger is...

A pastor should know better than that. thats another discussion and maybe i will bring in russell for that. secretary of state, final question, are the braves going to go all the way this year? are they going to win the n.l. east and continue winning in an all world series. >> incredible. theyre going to play hard, 20 years of great entertainment. we didnt have the strike year, we would have won that one, too. >> we are really excited this year with our prospects >> brad raffensperger, thank you...

Theyll report to the state election board, and that will be the answer. >> so i want to ask you something else. you talk about integrity counts and youve been very clear about that, and you have stood up courageously to the president when others would not, certainly not publicly. but you did say recently you wouldnt comply if the january 6th congressional committee subpoenas you. obviously january 6th is related to the former president and the big lie. so explain to me why you wouldnt comply if ...

You surprised to receive this letter three days ago? >> i think at some level he must know that he did lose the election because his advisers, his lawyers told him that he lost the election. in fact, books are coming out that told him where the polling was coming into the election. but people use elections and this narrative to really disrupt and destroy confidence in the election process. like you said, weve done three counts on this, the initial count, 100% hand recount, and then did a final s...

Went through in standing up to trump for the facts on the vote. his book is called "integrity counts." secretary raffensperger, i appreciate your time talking to you about this. this the first time youre commenting on this new letter from the president, in which he refers to joe biden as an illegitimate president. what was your initial reaction when you read the letter? >> good evening, erin. thanks for having me. well, im a lifelong republican. at the end of the day, i have to always put, you k...